Substances for External Application
She Chuang Zi 蛇床子
Fructus Cnidii Monnieni Cnidium Seeds
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Materia Medica Data
- Category
- Substances for External Application
- Temperature
- Warm
- Nature & Flavour
- Spicy, Bitter, Warm
- Channels Entered
- KI, SP
- Latin (pharmaceutical)
- Fructus Cnidii Monnieni
- Chinese
- 蛇床子
- Tone Marks
- shé chuáng zĭ
- Translation
- Snake's Bed Seeds
Sources & References
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The information here is referenced from numerous sources — teachers, practitioners, class notes from Five Branches University, the books below, and the published research literature, with citations given as resolvable PubMed identifiers. Where sources disagree, I have flagged the discrepancies directly. If facts couldn't be verified, I have left them out. How we source our content.
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